"This updated edition includes: newly re-edited play text and revised commentary notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to the play's famous lines and phrases, an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, an essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play, fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books, [and] an up-to-date annotated guide to further reading." -- Page [4]...

Reconstructs the language and works of William Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy that brings together the characters and situations of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.